WTF WHMs?

[sheepysheepy]

it's this part thats wrong though..

It's this way most of the time when I queue for Duty Finder as Bard. It's like you see a Bard in the group and you are all like "Ooh, Mana Battery!"

no, we just holy bard or no bard

[ariaandkia]

Yelled at if we DO damage. Yelled at if we DONT.

Stunning the mobs actually helps with healing. Stunned enemies do not attack anyone. Plus, Holy is freaking fun. Let the white mage worry about their MP.

it's this part thats wrong though..



no, we just holy bard or no bard

Seriously, WHM gets yelled at if they DPS and if they dont' DPS...

And Holy is one of the few AoE stuns out there. Usually a good 3-5 holies once I get a chance helps with making the damage a bit more stable and helps with speeding up the fight. I might need a little bit of extra time to recover my mp after the fight, but usually we end up saving more time than we lose. As for less than three mobs... It really depends on the mob. I generally won't, but while it isn't mana efficient to use holy on a single target, it is still a fairly high damage attack.

It is similar to why I'll tell do large pulls as a warrior even without aoe. I just spam overpower a bit with some damage buffs and force the healer to do some major healing for a bit. I need a few seconds to recover my TP after, but generally those runs are shorter than trying to do the entire dungeon normally.

As for the mana battery thing, I don't really think like that, though I will joke around with BRDs that I know well enough about how "yay, a mana battery!" Similarly, I often joke about how the tank's "HP Battery" is ready to go.

In all honesty, for the most part, I don't change what I do by much just because a BRD is in the party. Now, if the BRD happens to be running Mage's Ballad, I'll change things up a little since if it is there, might as well use it.

I've also had BRDs (two in the same party) refuse to use MB (when they weren't using any song). They were like: manage your MP better. Issue was? I was managing my MP as best as I could. It just happened that the tank needed that many cure 2s and the party needed that many big aoe heals. That was how fast the hp was dropping. (Granted, when one of your party member's excuse for having no armor or accessories equipped is that they never got any, but they are class changed.... Makes me wonder.)

[Moqi]

no, we just holy bard or no bard

This. I can manage my MP just fine and it makes healing easier. Holy is great.